Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-24
THE NEWS.

A street railway company has beer
organized at Findlay, o.
Congress is approaching its close, will
1175 bill on the House calender.
Italian laborers at Ware, Mass struck
raised their native flag and resisted ar
rest.
Dayton, o., is making big effort Il
import natural gas from Northern Ohio
wells.
Capt Unger, who killed August Bohle
was sentenced to 20 years hard labor a
Sing Sing.
A legislative measure has been draft
ed in New York to legalize betting OF
horse racing.
An Electirn Board at Scranton, Pa
has been sent to Jail for tampering witt
the returns.
Miss Lena Beck, Toledo. O., domes
tic, was fatally burned while lighting
gasoline stove.
The Merchants National Bank, o.
Oak, has closed. Liabilities and asset
about S4,00o,O00
Mrs Cleveland gave her last reception
for the season on Friday. and shool
about 5000 hands.
1t is stated the President has tenderet
the position of secretary of the treasury
to Speaker Carlisle.
Prescott Hall Butler, nephew o
Mrs A I Stewart. has filed suit to con
test the ladyis will.
Hillsboro. O., the cradle of the cru
SADIE movement, will vote on loca
option on March IA.
Mary Baker. White county, Ind. Wit
tasted for los days. has begun to es
and is getting stronger.
VIM German, Newark. O.. has beeI
indicted for murder in the first degre,
for killing Officer Roach.
A young daughter of Solomon Wash
burn, near Winchester, O., was horribl.
maDgled by vicious boar.
Missouri had an earthquake Thurs
day night sufficiently violent to over
turn furniture and crack walls.
1t is said that Postmaster Genera
Villas will be made a very rich man b!
bis iron interests in Wisconsin.
The bill to exempt women from th'
death penalty for murder was defestet
in the assembly at Albany, n Y.
Warden Howard,o of the Jeffersonvill
Qnd.) prison. is report short In hi
accounts $4,000 and has resigned.
The Ohio Club will give a farewell
receipt on to Gov Hoadly and Edga
10 hnson Saturday evening, the 5th.
Eight hun dred and fifty persons bav,
signed the MURPHY pledge at James
town, o., out of population of 1860.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, ha
been purchased by syndicate. with tn,
intention of making it pleasure resort
The Etruria has just bumped across
the Atlantic in six days, five hours ant
fifty two minutes-fastest winter time
on record.
Happy Bob" Van Bruut, of the Sal
walton Army, was sentenced at Elmira
n Y. to hang on April 10. for the muir
der of Will Roy.
Robt Dumford, engaged In bogus
pension scheme, was captured in Michi+
gan, and brought to Cincinnati for tria
in the U courts.
The National Industrial Conference,
with -seYeralZhnndred- delegates from
various parts of the UniGu, is in btsssou
today at Music Hall.
On Friday night the storms had left
but single telegraph wire up fol
through communication from Chicago
to the Pacific coast. 8
Garrett, of Baltimore, has telegraphed
Mackey, of San Francisco, congratula'
tiOns on the completion of the new wire
across the continent.
T. Norris Hatfield, Bethany, Ind- sho,
his wife and then himself. They were
welI-to-do. but had quarreled. He has
died. She will recover.
A villain burglarized W E Snyder's
house at Findiay, o.. aud then attempt
ed to blow up the place by turning on
the gas and filling the rooms.
In big rat hunt at Millersburg. O..
5000 tails were reported captured in
two weeks. Capt James Uhls crowd
won the day and a big supper.
About fifty of the leading newspapers
of the country have formed the Ameri.
can Publishers Association 8 protective
and mutual assistance organizations.
Thomas Blackstone, who robbed the
National Bank of Portland, Me-, of $780,.
900. has been released at Winnipeg, the
holding he was not extra
ditable.
President Grosvenor, of the National
Union League. has called an important
meeting of leading Republican,. to be
held at the Ebbitt House Washington,
March l. -
"A strike is on at the junction Iron
works, Mingo, O., and the strikers are
in fix because of their being members
both of the K of L aud the AmaigaGat>
ed assocfa tion.
nv LSfh AotoANy
ming struck building containing ten
Thousand bales of cotton, and it, with
two adjoining warehouses, was CON.
pletely destroyed -
4 bridge across the Genesee river at
Rochester, n. Y, collapsed from the
force Of the wind. carrying Annie, Ora
han and three others with 1t. They
we're all drowned. ssSp
The redemption of the trade doi,ars,
about 7,gn0, 0,00e Of them. will be COM
anences AS ssosns as The President puts
his signature to the bill, which will be
within a few days.
At Litchfeld. ILL.,, Mrs VIM Maxey
was burned to death by the explosion of
a lamp, and her husband will die from
injuries received while attempting to
extinguish the flames.
A Mrs Ogden. of Peoria. Ill, was
found lying dead in the gutter in front
of her house, while her son was inside
on the floor drink He ia sunnos cd Tn